My manager is really loud, bubbly, confident. She has no issues with saying 'no, I don't like that' to ideas that you suggest, very head strong in what she likes and can be quite blunt. This is all fine!
My issue is that I am struggling to have confidence in wider meetings that we are in together.
For example, she asked me to schedule a meeting with me, her and 3 people from another department to kick off a project that I will be overseeing. It's a new way of working for all of us and direction for it has come from her, so she led the meeting. But I felt totally awkward and she is such a big presence it turns me into a bit of a shell, and I guess I find myself feeling anxious at making the wrong suggestions or ideas. So the meeting finished - I made some suggestions and at the end said I'll be in touch - but I really didn't offer much and feel like a bit of an idiot and that my presence should be stronger.
If the meeting was just with myself and these 3 people, I would have been totally different! And obviously she doesn't see me in my other meetings, so I feel like her view of how I am and how I can manage is skewed.
Just wondering if anyone else is in the same position?